MacMame was an offshoot of the MAME project itself, which was developed as UNIX and PC versions first. On the Mac platform, game emulation developed seriously through the MacMame project, which was designed to emulate everything from arcade game systems, digital pinball, systems, consoles, and more. In this series of articles, I’ll go through the game emulation scene first. Besides seeing the interesting effect of how far you could actually drag down an operating system, this type of emulation didn’t have a lot of actual value.īesides this nerdy proof-of-concept experiment, the real value of emulation lies in two distinct areas in 2018: acceptable Macintosh emulation for PCs, though Hackintosh projects, and game emulation, through the MAME project and other emulation software in advanced stages of development, for PCs, Macintosh, and UNIX / Android systems. I can recall in the past a competition between friends to see who could achieve the best multiple emulation system – for example, a PC running a Mac emulator, running an Amiga emulator, running a Mac Plus emulator, running an Apple II emulator, running a CPM machine, running MS-DOS. Running emulators has always held a certain fascination for me, as I believe it has for the technology enthusiast community on the whole (ie, nerds).
